Avoid loud sounds on trains and offices! How to use iPhone "Automation" (PHILE WEB) --Yahoo! News

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Notification sounds and ringtones rang loudly at work and on the train! Many people have experienced the awkwardness. As a countermeasure, there are "Mute the sound in silent mode" and "Shut out the notification itself in intensive mode", but "No, I want the sound to be heard as long as it is not loud but moderate volume. I'd like you to receive a notification as well. " [Image] You can select your favorite setting from various activation triggers. In such a case, you can turn down the volume in advance, but it is easy to forget to "set it in advance". That's where the "Automation" feature provided in the "Shortcuts" app comes in handy. With this function, it is possible to automate "operation 〇〇 is automatically executed at the timing that meets the condition 〇〇". You can also use this to automate, for example, "set the volume to 25% when you leave home." After leaving home, you can prevent "inadvertently loud" on the train or at work. Let's set it. Launch the [Shortcut] app and tap [Automation] at the bottom of the screen to select it. Then start creating a new automation with the [+] button on the upper right. On the next screen, select Create personal automation here. Next, set the part of "at the timing that meets the condition 〇〇". In this example, select [Departure], and then select [Home] as the [Location] on the next screen. However, although this [Home] should reflect your address registered in [My Card] of the [Contacts] app, it may not be reflected well in reality. In that case, check the address displayed as home just in case. If that's wrong, enter your home address in another way, such as selecting Current Location when you're at home. Next is the setting of the action part "Automatically execute operation XX". If you enter [Volume] in the search box at the bottom of the screen, the action [Set volume] will be hit, so tap it to select it. By default, [Set volume to 50%] is displayed on the next screen, so tap the [50%] part to change it to any smaller value, for example, [25%]. Then tap [Next] to display the final confirmation screen, and tap [Finish] to complete the setting. In this example, the setting is "when you leave home", but you can also set "when it's 8 am on weekdays". It may be good to create automation such as "turn the volume back up when you arrive at home" and operate it as a set. One last note. When this action [Set volume] is executed with a Bluetooth earphone etc. connected to the iPhone, it changes the notification sound and music playback volume through the Bluetooth earphone instead of the speaker volume of the iPhone itself. I will. If you regularly use Bluetooth earphones when you go out, you should devise the setting of the automation activation trigger so that automation operates when the earphones are not connected.

Atsushi Takahashi